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From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
        linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: perf tools miscellaneous questions
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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:07:12 +0100
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Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 09:52:09AM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote:

[...]

>> 
>> No problem, but yes this part should be documented somewhere. And I
>> think the syntax of event too, specially the modifier like 'u' or 'p'.
>
> Ah that is documented in "man perf-list".

Ok, after updating my 3 weeks old kernel, modifiers are now documented.

But I failed to generate it:

    XMLTO perf-record.1
xmlto: /home/fmoreau/linux-2.6/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.xml does not validate (status 3)

BTW, what does 'skid' mean ? s(?) k(?) instruction delay ?

[...]

> I have the same problem. But running perf record with this :p works
> for me. Which is what we want: pebs is useful for sampling, not
> counting-only.

That makes sense but I still have a problem:

   $ perf record -e cache-misses:p -p $(pgrep test)

  Error: perfcounter syscall returned with -1 (No space left on device)

  Fatal: No CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y kernel support configured?


> Ah and that won't work if you don't run some intel CPU I think.  Check
> you have PEBS support in /proc/cpuinfo

It seems so:

   $ grep -qi pebs /proc/cpuinfo && echo pebs
   pebs

Thanks
-- 
Francis
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